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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Citizendium Project
The Citizendium Project sounds like it is attempting to merge the strengths of Wikipedia and Britannica by creating a more stable and authoritative version of Wikipedia. They are calling it a “Progressive Fork” of Wikipedia, meaning that they are attempting … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Online Databases, Open Access, Search
Tagged Fork
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Book Sale Scout
Want to track down used book sales? Want to promote your own? Book Sale Scout is a site that lets you search for book sales by location, date, and distance from a zip code. It includes a Google maps interface … Continue reading
OpenDocument.XML.org
OpenDocument.XML.org is, as the name might suggest, a website devoted to the new standard document file format. These formats have been making news over the past year or so because of the issue of archiving data files and having the … Continue reading
Trends in E-Learning for Library Staff
Based on research done in 2005, this summary of online learning (pdf) for both formal education and training is presented by WebJunction. It details how libraries make decisions about e-learning, and what the future holds. from ResourceShelf
Posted in Education, Libraries, Software, Training
Tagged e-learning, online learning
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Searching Shakespeare
Need to track down a Shakespearian quote? How many times does Juliet say “O Romeo, Romeo“? Want to know where and how many times he used the word “Library“? Shakespeare Searched is a search engine of the bard’s works based … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Search
Tagged search engine
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Wikipedia vs. Britannica – the e-mail debate
The Wall Street Journal set up an interesting and extremely enlightening e-mail debate between Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, and Dale Hoiberg, editor-in-chief of Britannica. I expected a polite statement of principles and strengths, and an establishment of the differences … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Open Access, Search
Tagged Britannica, Dale Hoiberg, editor-in-chief, founder, high speed internet connection, The
Wall Street Journal;, Wikipedia
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Banned Book Search
Google Book Search has put up a page dedicated to highlighting some of the books that have been challenged over the years, encouraging people to become aware of the controversies and the qualities of these reads. They have several links … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Libraries, Politics, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google Blog, Monkey Bites, Official
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11 September 2001
Much is being written about the September 11th attacks on the fifth anniversary. I hesitate to add to the discussion, but have been thinking about my own experience that day, and it seems appropriate to post it here. On that … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, News, Politics
Tagged 11th attacks on the fifth anniversary, Afghanistan, car radio, co-worker, New York, New York City, reporter, satellite feeds, Taliban, World Trade Center
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Remembering Fair Use
I find it interesting when organizations forget about fair use when they establish copyright policies. It is especially interesting when the organization is educational in nature, like the University of Southern California. I think it is necessary to counter blanket … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright
Tagged California, copyright law, University of Southern California
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Catalog Card Generator
This is a neat toy, an interactive artwork, and a trip down memory lane all in one… the Catalog Card Generator lets you type in information that is displayed on a card catalog-type display. Try it out, you will find … Continue reading
OCLC shutting down RedLightGreen
According to ResourceShelf, the incredible library search site RedLightGreen is due to be shut down at the end of November. This has been expected since OCLC absorbed RLG a few months ago, and now with WorldCat.org going live, there are … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Search
Tagged incredible library search site, OCLC stable
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Life in the Commonwealth
While driving home today, I heard a commentary on NPR’s All Things Considered entitled Life in the Commonwealth which discusses the impact of a community’s commons, especially the library. It touches upon the question of whether the concept of the … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Open Access, Politics
Tagged Commonwealth Day
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Google News Archive
Google News has added an Archive Search option, giving the user the ability to search news stories as far back as the 1700s. From the Google News main page, click the News Archive Search link (I recommend going one step … Continue reading
Posted in Google, News, Online Databases, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, the Washington Post
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Zotero, formerly known as Firefox Scholar
Zotero is a Firefox extension which will automatically detect when you are on a website that contains information related to citations (i.e. a library OPAC), and will collect this information for you. It will also let you save the web … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Open Source, Search, Software
Tagged research tool
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Libre Map Project is Liberated!
The Libre Map Project had a goal of raising $1600 to fund their project. Once that goal was met, they would open their collection of maps to the world. They met their goal… in less than 24 hours. Now the … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Open Access, Search
Tagged Internet Archive, USD
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More news from Google Book Search
Google Book Search announced today that they were making public domain materials available for download. In the Information Today article, it was stressed that the downloads were the pdf image files, and were not able to be keyword searched, as … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Google, Libraries, Open Access, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Michigan, the
University of Michigan, the
University of Michigan, U.S. government, United States
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Evergreen goes live!
The Evergreen ILS went live this morning in 252 Georgia libraries! Evergreen is an Open Source Integrated Library System (ILS) that the Georgia Public Library System has been developing over the past couple of years. The impact of this on … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Source, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged Evergreen ILS, Georgia, library software
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2006 Illinois Authors Book Fair
The 2006 Illinois Authors Book Fair will be held November 16-18 at the Illinois State Library in Springfield (map).
Posted in Conferences, Libraries
Tagged Illinois State Library
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Google Book Search
Google Book Search has been a large topic this week, with the fruits of their scanning projects starting to show up online, at least the books that are clearly public domain or for which permission has been granted. I definitely … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Libraries, Open Access, Search
Tagged Google, online info
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Convergence
Sometimes a topic comes at you from several different angles. Hopefully this allows one to see it in a broader fashion… The college where I work just finished the first week of classes. Many students have incredible financial pressures when … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Libraries, News, Open Access
Tagged California, textbook rental systems
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